From: colin@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning) Subject: Re: QIC 40 / QIC 80 ? Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 04:15:36 GMT
liljeber@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Mika Pekka Liljeberg) writes:
>In article <1992Sep3.174918.9822@uoft02.utoledo.edu> billp@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (Bill Parquet) wrote:
>> I've seen a lot of discussion about this. The people who were working on
>> that for 386bsd complained that the timing requirements were extremely tight
>> for running qic 40/80... At least too tight for a multitasking environment.
>So these people have actually managed to get some specific info on how to
>access the tape drive! Was the driver a general one, or for a drive from
>a particular vendor? Do you remember the names of these people?
>The subject of QIC 40/80 tape drives crops up every now and then. So far
>nothing has come of it, because no-one seems to know how to program these
>beasts. I've been under the impression that the information is proprietary.
>Please prove me wrong! :-)
You can get the QIC documents from
QIC Drive Standards, Inc.
311 East Carrillo Street
Santa Barbara, Cal. 93101
Tel: 805-963-3853
Fax: 805-962-1541
(extracted from an article posted on comp.unix.bsd - there is some discussion
there also)
>> If it were really necessary, I'd much rather have a tape backup program that
>> ran in some sort of exclusive mode than nothing at all.
>Agreed. The main objective is to be able to _use_ a tape drive. If the rest of
>the system is down for the duration, so be it.
> Mika
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>Mika Liljeberg Email: liljeber@kruuna.Helsinki.FI
>Helsinki University Mika.Liljeberg@Helsinki.FI
>Dept. of Computer Science